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  But then subjoins the Gascon cavalier

  How in the Moorish camp a damsel lies,

  By name Marphisa hight, of beauteous cheer,

  Bold and as skilled in arms of every guise,

  Who loves Rogero and to him is dear;

  And then the host so rarely sundered spies,

  That every one, throughout the paynim train,

  Deems that betrothed in wedlock are the twain.

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